Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl (1946)
Viktor Frankl survived four gruesome concentration camp experiences and was liberated in April 1945 from Turkheim. His memoir is about survival (staying alive), the quest for meaning, and the freedom one has to choose how to respond to situations and the liberation of taking responsibility. Frankl was a psychiatrist who spent the rest of his long life helping others understand this.
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In Memoir: A History, Ben Yagoda writes, "Soon after his liberation in 1945, Frankl composed in just nine days a manuscript chronicling his experience in the camps . . . Frankl never sought glory or to present himself as a 'witness'; rather, he wrote years later, 'I wanted to convey to the reader by way of a concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones."
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The English edition of Man's Search for Meaning was published in 1959 and includes "Logotherapy in a Nutshell," which explains his therapeutic doctrine.
Viktor E. Frankl, author of Man's Search for Meaning, is pictured at right meeting Pope Paul VI in Rome in 1970. At Frankl's side is his second wife Eleonore, whom he married in 1947. (His first wife, Tilly, whom he married in 1941, was murdered in Bergen-Belsen.)
The picture appears between pages 86 and 87 in the 2014 edition of the book; captured with an iPhone8.